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Greater New York City Area

Generation Ready is focused on driving student achievement through the delivery of impactful educator professional development through the combination of innovative digital PD tools and an experienced consultancy. Product owner for Generation Ready’s suite of client analytic tools (Kiwi Dashboard). Reports to the President.• Lead internal business partner for high profile engagements and VIP accounts. Key focus on large scale New York City engagements/initiatives including the NYC Department of Education’s Middle School Quality Initiative, Algebra-for-All and Chancellor’s Innovation Grant engagements (40% of NYC’s core business). As the relationship manager, extremely effective at driving 360 degree interaction among client, consultants, engagement mangers and technology resources maximize tool adoption/engagement efficacy.• Over a 3-month time frame, re-imagined and implemented “downsized” core business systems for Generation Ready including a new payroll system, electronic signature documentation system and consultant-facing mobile apps for client allocations/management. • Drove adoption of an integrated resource management planning process focused on managing consultant life cycle from candidate from acquisition, onboarding, allocation and deployment. Developed and utilized quantitative modeling tools to facilitate quantitative decision-making.

Greater New York City Area

Senior product manager for the Generation Ready education technology suite of tools including the ReadyPath teacher effectiveness HCM suite, the Learn Digital Content Library, and the Avatar Professional Development Management System (PD LMS).• Lead for development and launch of a new online course product line focused on asynchronous teacher professional development. Responsible for conceptualization of offering, content development and technical implementation of a new LMS. • Led design, engineering and implementation of a new visual Business Intelligence analytics offering to support literacy programs for the firm’s major clients.Oversight for the product roadmap, product development, product pricing, implementation strategy and product marketing strategy.

Greater New York City Area

Product Manager with oversight for the portfolio of EdisonLearning virtual education products, including its middle/high school onlice courses, learning/content management system (LMS) and formative assessment system. Coordinates engineering, product marketing, business development, operations and implementation team resources to ensure product delivery and fidelity to business models.Implemented SCRUM Agile development framework to drive software product development/enhancement across a geographically dispersed development team (international and multiple US-based sites).

Baltimore, Maryland Area

Project manager and lead analyst for a consulting engagement focused on:- Business intelligence tools- Data requirements- Product documentation.

Greater New York City Area

Responsible for the delivery of innovative student assessment and performance reporting tools in the K-12 education market. Focused on the Parent Network product - a family friendly delivery platform that combined high stakes assessment reporting with educational activities and parent engagement tools.

Baltimore, Maryland Area

Spectrum K12 is an education software solutions firm with significant market share in the special education market. Responsibilities included oversight of state-specific user groups, coordination of product release cycles for new product and new feature delivery, prioritization of enhancement queue for multiple product lines, and support of sales management process.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.)

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